Staff Reporter:
Police recovered two bodies, including a female from a house in the city’s Uttara area on Monday night.
The deceased were identified as Ibrahim Sheikh Apurba (28) and Moushumi Akhter (35). It has been known that Ibrahim was the adopted brother of Moushumi.
Being informed, a team of Turag police station rushed to the spot and recovered the two bodies after breaking the door of a room inside the house in Uttara Sector No. 10 around 10:30 PM on Monday night.
Ibrahim Sheikh Apurba’ was hailed from Faridpur district and Moushumi Akter from Chandpur district.
Quoting neighbors, police said Ibrahim has been residing in a rented room of the house. Moushumi often used to visit the house. She had been residing at a rented house in Uttara Sector -10 with her husband.
She went to the house of her brother Ibrahim sometime between 12:00pm and 4:00 pm on Monday. Finding no response from inside the room for a long time, neighbors informed Turag Police Station at around 8:30 pm. Later, police rushed to the house and broke the door with the house owner and found the two dead bodies inside.
Police found the body of the woman lying on the bed with her throat cut and a bloody knife was also seen beside her. On the other hand, the body of the young man was lying on the floor. He had a plastic wire wrapped around his neck, police said.
Contacted, the officer in charge (OC) of Turag police station Mohammad Mostafa Anwar said that the door of that room was fixed from inside. Later the police went inside breaking the door and found the two bodies lying there. The female corpse has a cut throat and the male corpse has scars on its throat.
Replying to a question, the OC said that the woman’s throat had been cut. She is believed to have been killed by slitting her throat. Ibrahim has a black spot on its neck. It seems that he might be committed suicide by hanging himself, then the rope snapped.
The bodies were sent to Shaheed Sohrwardi medical college hospital for post mortem.
